On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> HTTP/1.0 clients do not send a Host header in the request >> => no host information can be inferred from a request >> => HTTP_HOST will be empty. > but if HTTP_HOST is empty then from where is the reply coming from ? > I dont understand what you are asking? - the reply comes from apache. HTTP_HOST is a variable that holds the value of the http header 'Host'. If the browser doesn't send one, it isn't going to have a value. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx